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Mark2 -> RE: My Website (May 13 2007 16:58:07)
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It's a struggle that most serious musicians go through. My personal experience was that I was able to spend my late teens through early thirties doing a lot of playing and gigging, but by my mid thirties, I was spending more energy at my day gig. Having my second kid kinda made the difference. I also noticed that the full time players i was gigging with started to surpass my abilities at that time. they were gigging, touring, and practicing full time, and although I was able to hang with them, they started to pull away in terms of performance ability in my eyes. One of the guys told me if I really wanted to do the flamenco thing, I should take my whole family and move to Spain. He was right , I think, but it was a move I was unwilling to make, and I had reached a point in my local flamenco scene that I would have to make a much larger commitment to take it further. I couldn't do it. My three compadres and I are now 50ish, and they are still for the most part full time players. I have the security that they sacrificed, they can outplay me by far. There was a moment when I was in Spain when I was 28 years old where I made the decision to come home, and I think that's the moment my choice was made-I just didn't know that at the time that it was such a huge decision. I really have no regrets. I'm sure you guys will find the right way for you as well.
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ORIGINAL: romerito
Thanks. Needed to hear or read that. This sucks. Trying to go to school so I can have some kind of future other than the grind I am stuck in now.
Catch-22.
If I go to school I can't practice. If I don't go I will be financially struggling the rest of my life.
Ahhh...the life of an artist. Or...aspiring artist.
Not too cheesy is it?[:D]
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